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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
Librarian
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Poet
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Buenos Ayres
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
J. L. Borges
H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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